If you ever want to be interrogated, get Michael Shannon to do it. He’s an amazing man. I loved working with him.
FLORENCE PUGHI really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.
More Florence Pugh Quotes
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We’re learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.
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I think everyone’s always interested in playing a spy, right? That’s something we grow up admiring, which is so strange, but it’s just a very clever and quick world that we all want to be a part of.
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I can’t remember a Friday when I was younger when I wasn’t eating a pizza, flirting with the barman.
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Something that I’ve always been really keen on representing is some honesty with the way that we view ourselves.
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With ‘Lady Macbeth,’ I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to figure that out. And then you do it.
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I always hate it when I see the wrong person in massive roles, so for me, my biggest fear would be accepting a role I thought I wouldn’t find the rhythm of.
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Amazing, obviously. She’s been my idol since I re-enacted ‘Titanic’ and fell in love with Leo. And it’s a privilege to be called the next anything. But I suppose to be the next you is all you can do.
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Why aren’t there these epic roles for women, for whatever age you are?
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Why shouldn’t there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?
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I do like a bit of danger. Guns, cars, running, bullets. I’m up for it.
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If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move.
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I grew up in a very loud and dramatic household, and we loved being in the spotlight.
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I love watching faces as they grow up. It’s the difference between so many strong British actresses compared to what America does to women.
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Everybody’s story of getting into the industry is just as difficult as the next person. Whether you come from money or no money, it’s not easy… you have to offer yourself; you can’t expect someone to get you.
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I have learned how to wrestle. You end up battered and blue – but so happy.
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There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’
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The biggest thing about ‘Lady Macbeth’ is the fact that people are so surprised that this woman is so amazing, and really, it shouldn’t be so amazing that this incredible character is on our screens.
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I love all of Kate Winslet’s characters. And Natalie Portman. If I can have a smidgen of what they’ve done, that would be awesome.
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I don’t think I’m going to be an international sex symbol. I mean, I know I’m not going to be an international sex symbol.
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If I can make my mark just a little bit, then great.
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I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.
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It’s always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn’t make sense.
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The Kate Winslet thing has been a shocker. I was like, that is the most ridiculous claim.
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If people are noticing the hard work I’m doing, then that’s a wonderful thing.
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What I’ve noticed about Hollywood is, if you go out there shouting about who you are, they will love you for it. But if you go out not knowing what it is that you’re representing, and you are just a canvas, they will make you into the thing they need you to be.
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I suppose, used a different language or a different etiquette, but ultimately, these are still people that loved and breathed and lived and ate and weed and pooed just like we do now.
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